The John Templeton Foundation grant to UC Riverside philosopher Agnieszka Jaworska (together with Bennett Helm from Franklin and Marshall College and Jeffrey Seidman from Vassar College) will fund interdisciplinary research on questions such as: What is love? What is the role of love and caring in human freedom and other aspects of human agency? This project addresses such questions by capitalizing on the latest advances in neuroscience, and fostering interdisciplinary exchange between the best philosophical theories of love and caring, the relevant insights from psychology, law, medicine, and economics, and cutting edge scientific research on the emotions. For more information, visit http://www.loveandhumanagency.org/

The John Templeton Foundation grant to UC Riverside philosopher John Fischer will fund research on aspects of immortality, including near-death experiences and the impact of belief in an afterlife on human behavior. For more information, visit http://www.sptimmortalityproject.com/

FACULTY PROFILE

Professor Nelson’s research has focused on issues in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is interested in theories of communication and how, by uttering sentences, there is, in cases of success, a meeting of minds in which the audience comes to think the thought the speaker intended.

NEWS

Carl Cranor has been selected to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship for 2014-15. He thus joins a group of distinguished philosophers who received it earlier including Penelope Maddy, Stanley Cavell, Susan Wolf, Kendal Walton, and Harry Frankfurt. Join us in congratulating Professor Carl Cranor!

Congratulations to John Martin Fischer, the first professor of philosophy to be appointed as University Professor by the University of California Board of Regents. The title is reserved for scholars of international distinction who are recognized and respected as teachers of exceptional ability. You may read more on his prestigious award here.